Distributed teams
Visualize 24-hour coverage across distributed teams.
Input distributed team zones → see 24hr coverage ribbon with gaps highlighted. Shareable to Slack.
Regions needed
3
For clean 24h coverage
Overlap window
15–30m
Per handoff, documented
Baton pass
Ticket → Owner
Not memory or chat
Operations
Follow-the-sun works best when each region has a clear ownership window, a repeatable handoff note, and a small amount of overlap reserved for escalation. The visual on this page is useful because it shows whether your chosen cities create a clean relay or a messy patchwork with too many dark gaps.
A common three-region stack is North America, Europe or the Gulf, and Asia-Pacific. That usually creates enough continuity for support and engineering work without forcing every team to live in night shifts. The page is meant to make that handoff shape visible, not just to decorate the idea of global coverage.
If you are planning incident response, customer support, or a global operations desk, use this page alongside compare pages and the meeting planner. The compare pages tell you what two specific cities feel like together, while follow-the-sun tells you whether the whole regional chain is actually sustainable.
Failure modes
The model fails when teams rely on meetings instead of documented handoffs. If the outgoing region leaves work in chat threads, memory, or personal inboxes, the next region loses time just reconstructing context. That means the apparent 24-hour coverage is not actually productive coverage.
It also fails when the chosen regions do not have enough overlap to transfer urgent work safely. A page like this should make that obvious by showing whether the sun-shaped coverage still contains a practical baton-pass window between regions.
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